Africa

World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

The urge in the beginning had been to entitle this piece “The Death of African Solidarity”. It took no time at all for me to...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now...

Manufacturers of Coups and Bandits   

Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers...

Managerial Problem Of The UN

Washington has allowed issues irrelevant to American commitment to the UN to intrude. The US must pay its debts just like any other nation. Congress must immediately stop hectoring the UN...

Managerial Problem Of The UN

Washington has allowed issues irrelevant to American commitment to the UN to intrude. The US must pay its debts just like any other nation. Congress must immediately stop hectoring the UN...

Managerial Problem Of The UN

Washington has allowed issues irrelevant to American commitment to the UN to intrude. The US must pay its debts just like any other nation. Congress must immediately stop hectoring the UN...

Ethical Globalization And The African Course

What concepts help explain the new global order? What is the condition of the interstate part of international relations? And what does the emerging global civil society contribute to world order?

Freetown Night Or What You Will…

There really was good reason for Sierra Leoneans in the Nigerian Diaspora to let go and unwind the way they did recently: it was the annual Independent Day Celebration...

The Underdevelopment of the African Continent

Why is Africa so backward in all sphere of human endeavor? What is going on and what has gone wrong? Even our acclaimed culture is turning out to be an impediment to growth and development...

Charles Taylor is History

Sierra Leoneans are satisfied that their number one enemy has been arrested and like all those they consider to be the major actors behind the war and its barbarism, he would be tried and if found guilty he would be punished...

Bleeding Heart: Bahamas

When I visit the West Indies or the Island Nations of the Caribbean, I meet people who are clearly my long-lost cousins, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts and all other members of my extended African family of yesteryears...

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Naija Notes: What's Wrong With Obj?

OBJ is laughing like a hyena. Twice in less than six months, the Chicken Farmer has gathered the tribes from across the world in an orgy of extravagance...

Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Send Down Dollars’

Another instance of their being more to Lagos other than show is a man named Raji Babatunde Fashola SAN, the governor Lagos State.  While other governors concentrate on their skin tone and appearance he devotes his time to the appearance of Lagos and its infrastructure...

What Do APC, Nigerian Leaders Stand For?

The All Progressives Congress is now frequently called Nigeria’s main opposition party or group. Which designation raises the question: what exactly does the APC stand for? Or—a different question: In what significant ways does the APC represent an alternative vision for Nigerians?

Cry, My Beloved Nigeria

Nigeria deserves a better government that will be responsive to the yearnings of its people. Records indicate that twelve of the last thirteen Nigerian Presidents and Heads of State were circumstantial leaders...

One Nigeria: To Be Or Not To Be? (5)

Our fathers, grand fathers and great grand fathers got independence for us from the British, but the North recolonised us immediately before the British even lowered the Union Jack...

Obaship in an Era of Palliatives

In an interview with journalists recently, the Elegboro of...

In The Heart Of Warri

Is a morbid quest to create corpses the favourite pastime in this violence prone town in Nigeria?

Forensic Audit: A Test of Buhari’s Integrity

The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war...

2023 Polls: Time To Take Back Our Country

Come February 25, 2023, Nigerians will troop en masse...

To the General Assembly of the UN Organization, NY, USA

The prospects for international peace and security are dire and divergent views on the Syrian crisis have crystallized...